Monolith · Twin Tribes

152 bars of 4/4 at 142 BPM, about 4:17 of playing, on hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
142 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
152
LENGTH
4:17
DIFFICULTY
64/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 41% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-7, 9-11 and 13-15, and 7 more places -- 40.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 142 BPM
MONOLITH · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 152.

LOOP · 142 BPM
BAR 152
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

152 bars across 11 sections: 131 keep time and 1 is a fill. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 106-135.

CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART C
CHORUS 3
PART F
CHORUS 4
PART C
PART F
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesAFCFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Monolith?

142 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Monolith hard to play on drums?

64 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 14 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

152 bars, about 4:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 6 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Monolith?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 152.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 152 BARS ANALYSED
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